CAUSE OF DEATH: UNKNOWN

CAUSE OF DEATH: UNKNOWN

CAUSE OF DEATH: UNKNOWN

Director: Ali Zarnegar
Feature film | Iran | 2022
104 min | Dolby 5.1

57th Hof International Film Festival
2023

In the middle of the night, a minibus with seven people on board is traveling from Shahdad to Kerman. Suddenly it becomes apparent that one of the passengers is dead, and the problems begin. At this hour, before sunrise, they won’t be able to find a doctor to certify the death. But without a doctor’s death certificate, no ambulance will take the dead body. So what now?

Just as the group decides to go to the police, they unexpectedly discover that the dead man has a large amount of cash hidden under his shirt! The question of how to proceed now divides the minds, and tensions and mutual distrust arise, until finally everyone is convinced that they should divide the money fairly among themselves and bury the deceased man.

With Ahmad Dehghanrahimi, Ali Mohammad Radmanesh, Alireza Sani Far, Ashkan Ashoori, Banipal Shoomoon, Mansour Ghanijahed, Milad Moradi, Mohammadreza Hosseinian, Mojtaba Mirhosseini, Neda Jebraeili, Reza Amouzad, Saeed Rezaeikia, Sahar Babaei, Soheil Bavi, Zakieh Behbahani

Cinematography Davood Malek Hosseini, Editing Hamid Najafirad, Set design Mohamadreza Mirzamohamadi, Costume design Mohamadreza Mirzamohamadi, Sound Design Alireza Alavian, Music Easa Habibzadeh, Make-up Mohammadreza Ghomi, Executive Production Pooyan Sadeghi, Production Majid Barzegar